can someone pleeease tell me what the two silver circles are on the top of the hood! I see them all the time on 5.0s and i dont know what they are....its driving me crazy!

 

they are just hooks on the hood.. I guess either for showing off or lifting up the hood..either way, I think it looks stupid.

 

same here...never said they looked good...just wondering what in the hell they were...i thought they just might have had a purpose. oh well.

 

I am not sure... what they are for..but that is my guess.

 

Thay are for hood pins. The owner has removed his hinges and hood latch. It permits him to remove his hood in seconds. It is useful for a race car.
I think most people that have it are practicing to be 'ricers'

 

Yep,,hood pins,,some fiberglass hoods can't be hooked
to hinges,,and some can,,if you got a race car,,you got
hood pins..

 

haha oh ... heh thanks

 

Actually, that is www.fc3s.org "Project 86". Yes, those are hood pins. I have the same ones, and I get compliments all the time (that is, unless you forget to put them in one day, and your hood flys up doing $2k in damage to the roof and windshield....DOH!!!)

 

Aw man, that sucks! I know that they're very useful though.

 

www.fc3s.org rules!

 

damnit, the primer black FC has the same wheels as me.....

 

the eclipse in the fast n furious has it too :P hjaha

 

On a street car it is also good to make your car a mini store. So all the rice boys can walk by and window shop under your hood

James

 

two words "locking hoodpins"

 

thats what i was thinkin to wankel7... but then they got locking ones too

 

i seen one car last nite that had frickin fake ones glued on

 

Wow, locking hood pins...didn't know they had those. Thats cool. Glued on huh? Ouch, that is funny. Advance auto sells this exhaust tip...you bolt it up and hook up the 12V. for the blinking LEDS that are inside the exhaust tip

James

 

Ricer's wouldn't know what to do under my hood. They would get lost with the actual performance parts staring back at them!!!

 

Enkei RSE?

 

We have come full circle... from useful (sometimes necessary) racing part to something that people only recognize as a ricer part.

Hoodpins keep your hood from becoming a kite at high speeds, and retain fiberglass hoods that do not have provision for hinges. Most 'glass or carbon hoods should be pinned even if they do latch, as they tend to be less stiff than metal hoods and if a corner flexes up and catches some slipstream... well, the latch isn't going to do much for you when it rips out of the leading edge of the hood (more common with 'glass than carbon). See above- "kite".

 

The first time you have your hood fly up on the highway and bend over the roof like something out of a Daffy Duck cartoon, you'll appreciate hood pins.

Yes, that happened to me... at 2am, pulling onto a highway. It's a VERY effective way to bring you fully awake...

 

good point there DoriZaru! especially at those high speeds...

 

Wow, where to start on this one.

Yes they are hood pins. If you look at the How-To's section it shows then, and how to install them. They are on the car since it is a track only car. That shot was taken in Phoenix when we went out there to do some drag racing and dyno tune the car. I have them on so that I can remove the hood completely to work on the or in the engine area. Ever try to work towards the back of the engine and keep hitting your head on the hood while it is propped up? I don't.

The car is currently being fitted with a 13B-RE to race in NASA Super Unlimited class, so I think the hood pins are relevent to the nature of the car and it's purpose.

The wheels that were on it are my 91 vert wheels. I just had them on to drive out to Phx so the slicks wouldn't get eaten up on the freeway driving from San Diego.

And for the record, those are what the hood pins look like on the car, they are not hooks. They are ring shaped so you can pull them out quickly.